WillDekkard
04-26-2010, 03:07 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- April 25th
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* 1607 Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
* 1707 The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
* 1792 Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
* 1792 La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
* 1829 Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
* 1846 Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
* 1847 The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
* 1849 The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
* 1859 British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
* 1861 American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
* 1862 American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
* 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
* 1898 Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
* 1901 New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
* 1915 World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli beginsThe invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
* 1916 Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declare martial law in Ireland.
* 1916 Anzac Day commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
* 1938 U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
* 1939 DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.
* 1943 The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
* 1944 The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
* 1945 Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
* 1945 The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Mussolini tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
* 1945 Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
* 1945 Last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
* 1953 Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
* 1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
* 1961 Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
* 1966 The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
* 1972 Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
* 1974 Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrow the Estado Novo regime.
* 1975 As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
* 1981 More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
* 1982 Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
* 1983 American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
* 1983 Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
* 1986 Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
* 1988 In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
* 2003 The Human Genome Project comes to an end 2.5 years before first anticipated.
* 2005 The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
* 2005 Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
* 2005 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
* 2007 Boris Yeltsin's funeral the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
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- April 25th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1607 Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
* 1707 The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
* 1792 Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
* 1792 La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
* 1829 Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
* 1846 Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
* 1847 The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
* 1849 The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
* 1859 British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
* 1861 American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
* 1862 American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
* 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
* 1898 Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
* 1901 New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
* 1915 World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli beginsThe invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
* 1916 Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declare martial law in Ireland.
* 1916 Anzac Day commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
* 1938 U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
* 1939 DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.
* 1943 The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
* 1944 The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
* 1945 Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
* 1945 The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Mussolini tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
* 1945 Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
* 1945 Last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
* 1953 Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
* 1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
* 1961 Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
* 1966 The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
* 1972 Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
* 1974 Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrow the Estado Novo regime.
* 1975 As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
* 1981 More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
* 1982 Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
* 1983 American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
* 1983 Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
* 1986 Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
* 1988 In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
* 2003 The Human Genome Project comes to an end 2.5 years before first anticipated.
* 2005 The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
* 2005 Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
* 2005 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
* 2007 Boris Yeltsin's funeral the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
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